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The Ohio Women's Convention at Akron met for two days on May 28-29, 1851 in Akron, Ohio. [1] The convention was led by Frances Dana Barker Gage, who had previously presided over a similar event in McConnelsville. [1] The convention was not well received locally and several men, including local ministers, heckled speakers at it. [1]
1851. The Ohio Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio had Sojourner Truth as a speaker on African-American women and equality. [2] 1852. The Ohio Women's Convention in Massillon, Ohio established the Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA). [5] [6] 1853. October 5: The National Women's Rights Convention is held in Cleveland. [7]
April 19–20: Ohio Women's Convention at Salem is held in Salem, Ohio. [4] October 23–24: First National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Brinley Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. [5] 1851. May 28–29: The Ohio Women's Convention at Akron is held in Akron, Ohio and speaker Sojourner Truth gives her 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech. [6]
A bronze statue depicting her and women's rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled in New York's Central Park in 2020, becoming the park’s first monument honoring ...
A statue of women’s rights pioneer Sojourner Truth sits in the Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza in Akron, Ohio, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
In the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851, Sojourner Truth gave her famous Ain't I a Woman? speech. [71] Mary Church Terrell, an influential clubwoman, attended Oberlin College. [71] Hallie Quinn Brown, who was involved with women's clubs and the Republican Party, was an important suffrage leader in Ohio. [71]
The Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850 met on April 19–20, 1850 in Salem, Ohio, a center for reform activity. It was the third in a series of women's rights conventions that began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. It was the first of these conventions to be organized on a statewide basis. About five hundred people attended.
3. At the 1851 Ohio Women’s Convention in Akron, an extemporaneous speech that later became known as the “Ain’t I a Woman” speech was given by what woman? The phrase “ain’t I a woman ...